Very Fine+, Very Rare.

Very Fine+, Very Rare.

Nicely struck with most of inscription visible. Very Fine+, Rare.

Very Fine+, Rare.

Very Fine+, Rare.

Very Fine+, Very Rare.

Very Fine, Very Rare.

The issues of Kolapur, located within the Sarkar of Raibagh mint are one of the earliest instances of Maratha coins struck in the name of a Mughal emperor. Their issue was precipitated by anxieties of Tarabai, the dowager Rani of Kolhapur and a claimant to the Maratha 'Chhatrapati'-ship, in response to her rival Shahu of Satara having sought an approval of the Mughal emperor for his claims. On this coin, the 'Kolapur Sarkar' portion of the long mintname is off the flan, but 'Raibagh' which is almost never visible fully, is seen to a readable extent.

Some shrof marks on reverse otherwise Very Fine, Extremely Rare.

This coin resembles issues of Kolapur mint in the name of Muhammad Shah, however the mint-name is clearly engraved as 'Lokapur'. This must be a curious case of misengraving arising probably out of the fact that the letters 'L' and 'K' and their vowel-added forms look confusingly similar when written in the running Marathi script 'Modi'. It is likely that the contents of legend were communicated to the mint written in Modi and the engraver committed this error of transcription on the coin owing to this confusion. At RY 2, this is perhaps the earliest rupee in the name of Muhammad Shah struck at Kolhapur and the mistake apparently was rectified on subsequent dies. Kolhapur formally became a separate seat of a branch house of the Chhatrapatis following a treaty with Shahu in 1719.

Extremely Fine, Rare.

Very Fine, Very Rare.

Issues of Qila'a Parnala mint are also attributed to Tarabai's efforts of staking her claims for the Maratha supreme headship. 'Parnala' is an islamicate version of the Marathi name 'Panhala' which is a hill fort located to the West of Kolhapur, the seat of Tarabai's political authority.

Very Fine, Scarce.

Very Fine+, Scarce.

Very Fine+, Extremely Rare.

This extremely rare rupee was struck during the second Anglo-Mysore War, when Haider Ali being friends with the French, invaded the Carnatic region, in retaliation of the British occupation of the French port of Mahe on the Malabar Coast. Haider occupied Arcot on 3 November 1780 and conducted attacks on various British possessions from his base there. He died suddenly in 1782 and the War ended two years later in 1784 with the treaty of Mangalore. The AH/RY combination on the coin is curious – while AH 1196 correspond to 1781AD and falls perfectly well in the period of Haider's occupation of Arcot, RY17 does not match with this. It is certainly not the RY of Shah Alam II. It might most likely be the RY of Hyder counted from an event in 1763-64, which is close to the foundation of 'Sultanate of Mysore' under Haider.

Very Fine+, Extremely Rare.

Toned, Extremely Fine, Very Rare.

Haidernagar' was the name given to Bednur, dist. Shimoga, Karnataka State. Although this coin is struck in the name of Shah Alam II, the RY it bears corresponds to Haider Ali's reign reckoned from 1761-62.

Very Fine+, Scarce.

About Extremely Fine, Very Rare.

Extremely Fine, Rare.